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Article: A brief history of: Blenko glass.(MADE IN AMERICA)(Blenko Glass Company Inc.)(Company overview)(Brief article)
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- Country Living
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- August 1, 2009
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William J. Blenko was already 67 years old, in 1921, when he first set up shop in Milton, West Virginia--crafting sheets of handblown glass for stained-glass windows, including those in New York City's famed St. Patrick's Cathedral. Though he originally called the company Eureka Art Glass, Blenko gave it his name in I930- Here's what happened next:
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1930
Blenko Glass begins making colorful glass tableware to offset plummeting Depression-era stained-glass sales.
1938
Five years after William J. Blenko's death, his youngest son. ...